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Marred Vote Has U.S. Asking Afghans to Pause.
- Source :
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New York Times . 9/9/2009, Vol. 158 Issue 54793, p1. 0p. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- On Monday, as the vote-counting in Afghanistan was nearing an end, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was briefed by the American ambassador in Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry. The same day, the ambassador delivered a blunt message to the front-runner, President Hamid Karzai: ''Don't declare victory.'' The slim majority tentatively awarded Mr. Karzai in Afghanistan's fraud-scarred election has put the Obama administration in an awkward spot: trying to balance its professed determination to investigate mounting allegations of corruption and vote-rigging while not utterly alienating the man who seems likely to remain the country's leader for another five years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *ELECTIONS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03624331
- Volume :
- 158
- Issue :
- 54793
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New York Times
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 44105323